Stock Market Today, Feb. 12: Stocks moderate as initial claims fall, continuing claims rise

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Happy Thursday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Feb. 12, 2026. You tin travel the latest updates connected the marketplace present successful our regular unrecorded blog.

Existing Home Sales fell 8.4% month-over-month successful January to 3.91 million, falling abbreviated of the 4.15 cardinal estimate.

The U.S. markets are unfastened for the day.

56.1% of issues are advancing this greeting against 39.7% declining, per FinViz. Despite that, it's lone the Dow (+0.38%) and S&P 500(+0.12%) heading higher successful the archetypal fewer minutes of trading, portion the Russell 2000 (-0.03%) and Nasdaq (-0.16%) are a interaction lower.

The 10YTreasury is 3.1 bips little astatine 4.152%, undoing immoderate of yesterday's steepening.

Sorting by marketplace cap, we tin get to the bottommost of immoderate of the largest net reactions this morning. We tin see yesterday's P.M. reports first, followed by the A.M. reports from this morning.

Starting from the reports astatine dusk, Applovin (-12.9%) and Cisco (-7.3%) are seeing immoderate large declines this morning. On the flip, HubSpot (+16.4%) and Equinix (+12.1%) are higher aft their respective aft hr reports:

And present are the moves from this morning's reports, which see immoderate notable moves little from Zoetis (-6.1%) and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (-5.36%). On the flip side, Howmet Aerospace (+9.3%) and Iron Mountain (+6.1%) are heading higher this morning.

Initial & Continuing jobless claimsjust dropped astatine 8:30. Both prints were higher than analysts expected, but there's astatine slightest a tiny consolation successful the week-over-week diminution successful archetypal claims.

Initial Claims arrived successful manner astatine 227,000, down from 232,000 past week, but inactive supra the expert statement of 225,000. Continuing Claims, connected the different hand, roseate to 1.862 million, up from 1.841 cardinal past week; that people was rather a spot steeper than expected.

The study seems to person had small interaction connected futures, which are inactive tilted to the upside. At past look, some the Nasdaq and S&P 500 looked arsenic though they would unfastened up one-third of a percent point, with the marketplace slated to unfastened successful conscionable an hour's time.

Good morning. U.S. equity futures are seeing humble gains this greeting aft a diminution successful benchmarks yesterday.